Monday, July 23, 2012

Goat Man of Northern Utah

...a man hiking Sunday along Ben Lomond peak in the mountains above
Ogden, about 40 miles north of Salt Lake City, spotted the person
dressed like a goat among a herd of real goats. The person provided some
blurry photographs to Douglass, who said they did not appear to have
been altered.

Wildlife officials now just want to talk to the man so that he is
aware of the dangers. There's no telling what his intentions are,
Douglass said, but it is believed he could just be an extreme wildlife
enthusiast.

"People do some pretty out there things in the name of enjoying
wildlife. But I've never had a report like this," Douglass said.
"There's a saying we have among biologists — You don't go far enough,
you don't get the data. You go too far, you don't go home. The same is
true with some wildlife enthusiasts."